Senior in-house counsel recruitment

Our client provides banking, insurance, investments, mortgage and consumer and commercial finance across North America and internationally.

Their Law Department provides advice to its senior management, business units and support services on a range of issues including regulatory matters, transactions and corporate law issues, with lawyers located in various offices globally.  

With significant growth plans, in particular across Global Banking, Capital Finance and Corporate Trust Services, our client needs to support these plans from a legal perspective (to establish new businesses, advise on regulatory and transactional matters), and as a result requires a duly qualified lawyer to provide Dublin-based support.

Requirements:

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

•                    Duly qualified lawyer admitted to practice law in Ireland,, other common-law or  

European jurisdictions.

•                    Excellent transactional experience practicing law with a major law firm or financial services organisation preferred.

•                    Substantial experience representing international financial institutions on cross-border transactions, regulatory issues and dealing with regulators.

•                    Good technical knowledge of markets and relevant laws (banking, securities, insolvency, tax, etc.) with respect to lending, capital markets, structured finance and similar products.

•                    Excellent drafting and negotiation skills.

•                    Flexible, proactive, creative and entrepreneurial approach.

•                    Knowledge of US banking and securities laws helpful.

•                    Ability to manage projects and work with multidisciplinary project teams.

Responsibilities:

The primary areas of responsibility for the role are as follows:

•                    Providing local law advice and counsel to senior leadership within the bank on cross-border transactional and regulatory issues.

•                    Reviewing and providing advice on trade-related legal issues and transaction documents for various business units (liaising with external counsel as appropriate).

•                    Working independently with business units to help develop their businesses, particularly in obtaining requisite approvals from Head Office committees.

•                    Identifying and mitigating transaction risks and providing creative, problem-solving legal input to new product and new initiative development.

•                    Providing legal advice on compliance policies, advising and working with Compliance Department as appropriate.

•                    Advising on licensing regulations in various jurisdictions, in particular on the ability to market, solicit and conduct business in such jurisdictions.

•                    Analysing and interpreting legal issues and complex documents (including term sheets and full legal documentation), for business units.

•                    Oversight and support of corporate secretarial functions (using third parties where appropriate).

•                    Communicating regularly and co-ordinating with Head Office Law Department, in particular adhering to policies and procedures in retaining and managing external counsel.

•                    Managing external counsel relationships and all related expenses, particularly on transactions (and approving legal invoices).

•                    Consulting with and advising clients and representing the Bank in dealing with others inside and outside the organization, as appropriate.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to provide feedback to every application. Our consultants will be in touch within due course should your application be shortlisted. If ou have not heard from us within 2 weeks your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful. Please keep an eye on our website for any future roles which may be suitable.